NY Times Bloody Sunday Cover-up

In a story about the future of the border between Ireland and the UK after Brexit (8/7/2016), Stephen Castle claims that the "years of  strife and violence in Northern Ireland between some Protestants who wanted to remain part of Britain and some Roman Catholics who favored unification with Ireland."

In fact the Northern Irelands Troubles of the 1960s and 70s were about civil rights, not the partition of Ireland into North and South.  The Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association led the civil rights movement beginning in 1967 using civil rights marches to lobby for an "end to discrimination in areas such as elections... discrimination in employment, in public housing and alleged abuses of the Special Powers Act [including extra legal internment of dissidents]."  The increasingly repressive reaction to these protests culminated in the 1972 "Bloody Sunday" massacres, where British soldiers shot 26 unarmed civilians.

The question concerning Brexit is not really the border.  The question is whether conservatives, who never approved of the settlement of Northern Ireland's civil rights issues,  will return Northern Ireland to it's bad old days of civil rights abuses. 

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To this day The Times has failed to address its bias and continues to feature Simon Winchester, the Guardian reporter who helped England's Parachute Regiment cover up its role in the Bloody Sunday massacre.